NEW WORLD GROUP PLANNING CONCERT

The Symphony of the New World will resume its 1971‐72 concert schedule at Philharmonic Hall tomorrow afternoon following an interruption resulting from a dispute about who is to run the orchestra. Though the dispute is not yet resolved, the concert is scheduled to be given, conducted by Dewis de Coteau with Andrew Frierson, bass ‐baritone, as soloist.

The Symphony of the New World was organized in 1965 to create job opportunities for talented nonwhite instrumentalists and conductors. It has 80 members, black and white.

This will be the orchestra's first concert since Oct. 10, when a list of demands presented by several members led Benjamin Steinberg to submit his resignation as music director.

Mr. Steinberg, who is white, was one of the founders of the orchestra seven years ago and presided over it until opposition to his administration crystallized in the Oct. 10 demands.

Among other things, the dissenters contended that Mr. Steinberg was attempting to turn the Symphony of the New World into a training orchestra and that, in any case, he was running it too much as a personal operation. They asserted that the board of directors was not keeping the orchestra to its original objectives.

By Oct. 10, five of the original seven incorporators of the Symphony of the New World had begun to move to take over its administration, saying they had the right to do so as signers of the incorporating papers. They accepted a resignation written out by Mr. Steinberg a few minutes before he conducted the Oct. 10 concert and initiated their own plans for the rest of the season.

Mr. Steinberg resisted the efforts of the dissident incorporators to make him honor the resignation, and the board he had appointed gave him nominal support for some time.

Concerts were canceled and on Feb. 1 Mr. Steinberg sent out a letter to subscribers announcing suspension of the remaining season's events and asking that their season's subscription money be designated as contributions to the orchestra. About this time, he also moved the furniture and files from the orchestra office at 250 West 57th Street to an apartment belonging to a member of his family.

An interim board appointed by the dissident founders committee announced that it would present the Symphony of the New World concert as scheduled tomorrow.

But Mr. Steinberg refused to release to them the tickets for the concerts that had not already been sold by subscription. On Feb. 18, a court injunction was obtained ordering him to release the tickets, and he complied.

The situation is complicated by the fact that funds allocated to the Symphony of the New World by the New York State Council on the Arts have been withheld pending resolution of the matter.

Mr. Steinberg could not be reached yesterday for comment on the matter.

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